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Here were no ill-fed, whiskey-poisoned men, such as the rest of the sailors, who, having drunk up their last pay-days, had starved ashore until they had received and drunk up their advance money for the present voyage.

He saw her yearning, hungry eyes, and her ill-fed female form which had been rushed from childhood into a frightened and ferocious maturity; then he put his arms about her in large tolerance and stooped and kissed her on the lips.

Surely these are just healthy, commonsense institutions that may have lain dormant during two millennia of repressed, unfit, ill-fed Christianity, but whose resurgence now needn't make our world like the ancient one – certainly not in the significant and very conscious sense that 16th and 18th-century Europe was.

In advance of the United Nations hearing on the U.S. human rights record, taking place in Geneva on Friday, November 5th, advocacy groups called the U.S. government to account for regularly washing its hands of any responsibility for ensuring that its people are not ill-fed, ill-housed, and of ill health.

Curiously, Jan had with him a young boy whom I took for his apprentice, though he looked scrawny and ill-fed; added to this, the motions of his arms and the turn of his head seemed more akin to that of a cat than a boy.

As such, he is paid, not to do actual unbiased research and report the findings, but to generate creative writing that agrees with the institute, which is dedicated to preserving corporate profits and corporate welfare, and has no concern whatsoever for the poor, the ill-fed, the ill-housed, and those with inadequate health care.